Zonta Club presents scholarships to 5 area teens

GAYLORD - The Zonta Club of the Gaylord area recently entertained four local women and their parents, presenting scholarship checks to the women at an awards dinner held at the Sugar Bowl Restaurant.

The scholarship winners were Leslie Abeel from St. Mary Cathedral High School; Meghan Miner from Gaylord High School; Amanda Clark from Johannesburg-Lewiston High School; and Jamie Green from Gaylord High School.

Abeel is attending the University of Detroit Mercy College where she is in the premedical school. She is the daughter of Fred and Judy Abeel. Her mother accompanied her to the dinner.

Clark, of Johannesburg, also is attending the University of Detroit Mercy College in the first year of a six-year dental program. Her parents, Donald and Corrine Clark, attended the Zonta dinner with her.

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Green and her mother, Elaine, were also present. Green is a first-year nursing student at Michigan State University and intends to enter one of the many related fields in the medical profession.

Miner was accompanied by her parents, Dr. David and Jill Miner. She attends the University of Michigan where she is studying environmental science.

Zonta is an international classified service organization known worldwide for its many service projects in nations throughout the world and locally. In addition to the scholarships, which are awarded annually, the Zonta Club of Gaylord recently delivered several cases of canned goods to the Women's Resource Center in Otsego County. Other service projects include the Book Bag Program wherein women giving birth in Otsego Memorial Hospital receive books to be read to babies and children in the family, promoting the Zonta program of literacy worldwide.

Among the projects which provide funds for scholarships and other local and international projects are the annual Alpenfest Home Tour, which is in its 20th year. Local Zontians and members of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program serve as hostesses and hosts at the homes which are on display.

Another fund-raising project is the annual raffle of an authentic handmade Amish quilt, now on display at Saturn Booksellers on Main Street in Gaylord. The raffle will be Dec. 10. Tickets may be purchased at Saturn Booksellers and from members of the Zonta Club.

Members of the community are invited to join members of Zonta at an informal dinner Tuesday, Nov. 12 featuring Betty Kruger of Alpena who will discuss Zonta, its role in the United Nations, Zonta's consultative status with United Nations, UNICEF, worldwide and local service projects and the history of the organization.

Dinner is dutch treat at 5:30 p.m. at the Sugar Bowl. Reservations may be made by calling 732-9171.